Re: Spatial domain of data

• To: Jeff McWhirter <jeffmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Spatial domain of data
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:57:36 -0600 (MDT)

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Jeff McWhirter wrote:

>
> Ethan/Robb,
> We havge a user that claims the latitude show in the IDV and that shown
> in the netcdf tools ui
> plot is different:
>
> I tried running the toolsui bout could not figure out how to plot a
> field. Can you look at the data:
> /upc/share/metapps/test/data/grids/MM5_Temp.grib
>
> and tell me what the spatial domain is?

 here's a dump

                GRIB Edition : 1
                   GRIB length : 74706
            Originating Center : 57 Air Force Weather Agency
        Originating Sub-Center : 1 Melbourne
            Product Definition : 0 Forecast/Uninitialized Analysis/Image
Product
            Parameter Category : -1 Meteorological Parameters
                Parameter Name : 11 TMP Temperature
               Parameter Units : K
                Reference Time : 2005-10-27T00:00:00Z
                    Time Units : hour
          Time Range Indicator : product valid at RT + P1
                   Time 1 (P1) : 6
                   Time 2 (P2) : 0
       Generating Process Type : 10
                    Level Type : 100 isobaric
                 Level Value 1 : 500
                 Level Value 2 : 0
                    GDS Exists : true
                    BMS Exists : false
         Number of data points : 54270
                     Grid Name : Latitude/Longitude Grid
                     Grid Shape: 0 spherical
         Spherical earth radius: 6367.47
                            Nx : 270
                            Ny : 201
                           La1 : 17.1
                           Lo1 : 33.0
  Resolution & Component flags : 0
                           La2 : 45.1
                           Lo2 : 70.7
                            Dx : 0.14
                            Dy : 0.14
                 Scanning mode : 64

points (La1, Lo1) and (La2, Lo2 )

robb...



>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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